Research Review: Pediatric anxiety disorders–what have we learnt in the last 10 years?

JR Strawn, L Lu, TS Peris, A Levine… - Journal of Child …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Anxiety disorders first emerge during the critical developmental periods of
childhood and adolescence. This review synthesizes recent findings on the prevalence, risk …

Annual Research Review: An expanded account of information‐processing mechanisms in risk for child and adolescent anxiety and depression

JYF Lau, AM Waters - Journal of Child Psychology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background Anxiety and depression occurring during childhood and adolescence are
common and costly. While early‐emerging anxiety and depression can arise through a …

Alterations in neural circuits underlying emotion regulation following child maltreatment: A mechanism underlying trauma-related psychopathology

JL Jenness, M Peverill, AB Miller, C Heleniak… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
BackgroundDisruptions in neural circuits underlying emotion regulation (ER) may be a
mechanism linking child maltreatment with psychopathology. We examined the associations …

The dot-probe task to measure emotional attention: A suitable measure in comparative studies?

R Van Rooijen, A Ploeger, ME Kret - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2017 - Springer
For social animals, attending to and recognizing the emotional expressions of other
individuals is of crucial importance for their survival and likely has a deep evolutionary …

Do not look away! Spontaneous frontal EEG theta/beta ratio as a marker for cognitive control over attention to mild and high threat

A Angelidis, M Hagenaars, D van Son… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Low spontaneous EEG theta/beta ratio (TBR) is associated with greater
executive control. Their role in regulation of attentional bias for stimuli of different threat …

Anxiety and attentional bias in children with specific learning disorders

SL Haft, PH Duong, TC Ho, RL Hendren… - Journal of abnormal child …, 2019 - Springer
Children with specific learning disorders (SLDs) face a unique set of socio-emotional
challenges as a result of their academic difficulties. Although a higher prevalence of anxiety …

Threat-related attention bias in socioemotional development: A critical review and methodological considerations

X Fu, K Pérez-Edgar - Developmental Review, 2019 - Elsevier
Cross-sectional evidence suggests that attention bias to threat is linked to anxiety disorders
and anxiety vulnerability in both children and adults. However, there is a lack of …

The neurobiology of dispositional negativity and attentional biases to threat: Implications for understanding anxiety disorders in adults and youth

AJ Shackman, MD Stockbridge… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
When extreme, anxiety can become debilitating. Anxiety disorders, which often first emerge
early in development, are common and challenging to treat, yet the neurocognitive …

Event‐related potentials of attentional bias toward faces in the dot‐probe task: A systematic review

RD Torrence, LJ Troup - Psychophysiology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The dot‐probe task is a common task to assess attentional bias toward different stimuli and
how groups differ (eg, attentional bias in anxiety disorders). However, measuring reaction …

Frontolimbic functioning during threat-related attention: Relations to early behavioral inhibition and anxiety in children

X Fu, BC Taber-Thomas, K Pérez-Edgar - Biological psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
Children with behavioral inhibition (BI), a temperament characterized by biologically-based
hyper-vigilance to novelty, display threat-related attention biases (AB) that shape …